503-507 (this screen)

519-521 East 11th Street (A/B), 1888
Architect : Herter Brothers
The tenement building was built in 1888 as an elaborate and eclectically styled Queen Anne
building. The two buildings on East 11th Street were part of a trio designed in 1888 by architects
Peter and Francis William Herter, German Catholic immigrants who had only been in New York City
for a few years before receiving the commission for the Eldridge Street Synagogue in 1887. The
popularity of the synagogue design would propel their careers and in the following years the
Herter Brothers would design some 60 tenements in Lower Manhattan, primarily in the Lower East
Side.
The buildings on East 11th Street were owned by developer Asher Weinstein and he and the Herter
Brothers partnered on the development and design of many tenements in the Lower East Side as
well as other buildings throughout the city. Peter Herter considered his firm’s designs for
tenements of a better quality than the standard and therefore better for the tenants. He and
architect Ernest Flagg, designer of the building that houses our offices as well as the Mills House
No. 1 in the South Village, had an editorial debate in the Real Estate Record and Guide in 1900
about the design of tenement houses.
The building’s facade consists of brick with terracotta ornamentation The ground floor retains
nothing of its original appearance. The second floor windows have elaborate terracotta hood
moldings that surround segmental brick arches. The left and right windows of the third, fourth and
fifth floors had projecting semi-circle window sills that appeared to be part of a limestone
trim. Supported by the sill directly above the brackets are columns that have a diamond pattern
texture along the shafts. The columns support an arch decorated in elaborate terracotta detail. A
semi-circle terracotta panel ornaments the area above all of the fourth floor windows. Throughout
the facade are horizontal stringcourses of small pyramidal terracotta squares. Terracotta spandrel
panels sit between the third and forth floor windows. The cornice follows the various projections
between the windows and is ornamented with more pyramidal shapes, brackets and a large,
unusual, circular pediment.
166-170 Avenue B (10th/11th) 1859-1860 Pre-Law Tenements
525-29 East 6th Street 1860-63 Built by William Astor Pre-law, pre-Civil
War tenements
503-507 (this screen) & 509-513 (prior screen) E. 6th (A/B) 1860
Pre-law, pre-Civil War tenements built by William Astor
507, 509, 511, & 529 E. 5th Street 1859
Built by william Astor pre-law, Pre-Civil War tenements
76 Avenue B (5th Street) Building Date : 1889 Original Use : Residential/Commercial
Original Owner : C.F.A. Newman Original Architect : William Graul
172-180 East 4th Street; 51-57
Avenue A | Block : 431 | Lot
#25
Building Date : 1928
Original Use : Residential
Original Owner : Samuel
Ageloff
Original Architect : Shampan
& Shampan
Description & Building
Alterations
This twelve-story apartment
building was built in 1928 and
is named Ageloff Tower, after
its original owner.
P.S. 63 -- 121 East 3rd Street; 150-160 East 4th Street
Architect: CBJ Snyder
135 East 2nd Street
(Ave. A/1st Avenue)
Building Date : 1903
Original Owner : St.
Nicholas Roman
Catholic Church
Original Architect : F.
W. Herter
This is a five story
building with an
elaborate front of
brick and Indiana
limestone stone,
originally used as a
parsonage for St.
Nicholas Roman
Catholic Church
(since demolished). It
features pointedarched windows and
lintels that evoke the
Gothic Revival style
of St. Nicholas.